Tripping from Pottsville

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

We're in. Our new home away from home will never be the same again!Some shows can be performed anywhere, and it works. Others, well, you need to be a little more specific. Size-wise, seating arrangement, sound, the right ceiling height to accommodate a 14 foot, I mean 10 feet pole. For HAIR, our theatre couldn't be more perfect! Being together as a Tribe on stage is one thing, but here we have a stage where the audience is, essentially, right on there with us! How perfect! So close in fact, that while we'll be smoking fake joints all night, everyone in the house will probably be getting fake contact highs as well!

Our first run at it in our first night in was interesting. (Missed ya HotDog, get well soon) Did it make lyrics to "The Bed" any easier,,,no. Did it help us in interacting with each other and getting comfortable with being "freaks" together?,,,definitely! (Still would have loved to hear Trish sing "My Conviction") Haven't checked out sliding down the pole yet. But just as well, I'd probably dig it too much and be real sad knowing, I'm not allowed to use it.

Did I mention the set is perfect too? D.D. has devised a beautiful space for us to work in. Goin out on a limb here, but gotta feeling, adding color will only make it more beautiful! (And bless you D.D...the "stamps" dialogue was great! It may have been too BIG in Kerouac's eyes,,,,which, hey, he's the Director, all the power, insight, vision and expertise is his, but I thought you captured the absurdity of what Mother does with her stamps really well...but hey,,,I'm just a schmo, I have no expertise.) It is such a kookie scene though. I could see it being tough to find just the right direction in how to play it out. TA DA! That's what Scott's for!! It's funny too, last night as Arrow and I are reading our fake newspapers, we both thought of the same thing. We leaned back and pretty much said, at the same time, "We're probably not gonna have actual papers for this,,," Which, we're assuming is the case,,,,well, DUUUUH,,it's not like the mothers are moving around 3 friggin vacuum cleaners in the scene! But how I just loooove their unison humming! Well, now wait a tic,,, I get to whack Claudius in the head with one of those fake papers,,,,that should be interesting.,,,

Hope everyone is as excited, if not more, about being-in our new home away from home as me!

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Lyrics to Monster/Suicide/America by Steppenwolf 1970

Song found in the above mix,,,and what a song!

(Monster)Once the religious, the hunted and wearyChasing the promise of freedom and hopeCame to this country to build a new visionFar from the reaches of kingdom and popeLike good Christians, some would burn the witches Later some got slaves to gather riches

But still from near and far to seek AmericaThey came by thousands to court the wildAnd she just patiently smiled and bore a childTo be their spirit and guiding light

And once the ties with the crown had been brokenWestward in saddle and wagon it wentAnd 'til the railroad linked ocean to oceanMany the lives which had come to an endWhile we bullied, stole and bought our a homelandWe began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek AmericaThey came by thousands to court the wildAnd she just patiently smiled and bore a childTo be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped itThey kicked it just like a dogAnd when the war overThey stuffed it just like a hogAnd though the past has it's share of injusticeKind was the spirit in many a wayBut it's protectors and friends have been sleepingNow it's a monster and will not obey(Suicide)The spirit was freedom and justiceAnd it's keepers seem generous and kindIt's leaders were supposed to serve the countryBut now they won't pay it no mind'Cause the people grew fat and got lazyAnd now their vote is a meaningless jokeThey babble about law and orderBut it's all just an echo of what they've been toldYeah, there's a monster on the looseIt's got our heads into a nooseAnd it just sits there watchin'Our cities have turned into junglesAnd corruption is stranglin' the landThe police force is watching the peopleAnd the people just can't understandWe don't know how to mind our own business'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like usNow we are fighting a war over thereNo matter who's the winnerWe can't pay the cost'Cause there's a monster on the looseIt's got our heads into a nooseAnd it just sits there watching(America)America where are you now?Don't you care about your sons and daughters?Don't you know we need you nowWe can't fight alone against the monster

America where are you now?Don't you care about your sons and daughters?Don't you know we need you nowWe can't fight alone against the monster